Study Aids

Legal study aids are books, flashcards, flowcharts, and other materials designed to help you make sense of the material you cover in class, successfully brief cases, outline for a course, and prepare for exams.

Study Aids Guide

Check out our Study Aids LibGuide for detailed information about the study aids series available online through Aspen Learning Library and West Academic.

Study Skills Collection

The Study Skills collection is located on the third floor of the Law Library, across from the Circulation Desk. The collection brings together an array of print study aids, legal research and writing texts, exam prep, and Bar exam study materials. Items in Study Skills can be checked out by law students for two weeks and are eligible to be renewed for an additional two loan periods.

Aspen Learning Library

Aspen Learning Library provides unlimited online access to hundreds of titles. Available series include Examples & Explanations, Emanuel Law Outlines, and Glannon Guides.

Register for an account using your ASU email address to ensure off-campus access and save notes, bookmarks, and highlights.

West Academic Study Aids

West Academic Study Aids offers easy online access to hundreds of study aids, treatises, and audio lectures. Available series include Nutshells, Gilbert Law Summaries, the Acing series, and Sum & Substance Audio.

Register for an account using your ASU email address to ensure off-campus access and save notes, bookmarks, and highlights.
Go to the West Academic login page and select the Create an Account link.
If you encounter a reCAPTCHA error during the account creation process, verify you are using the https://signin.westacademic.com url to create your account.

CALI

CALI Lessons are designed to help you become accustomed to taking multiple-choice examinations and provide feedback on your answers. CALI offers more than 1,000 interactive tutorials on legal education topics, from 1L subjects such as Torts and Contracts, to upper-level classes including Administrative Law and Commercial Transactions. It also has legal research tutorials for most state jurisdictions and federal cases, statutes, and regulations. Law students can find instructions to register for a CALI account on the Access to Westlaw, Lexis, Bloomberg Law, and CALI page.

Past Exams

Many law faculty make their past exams available to students as a study aid and sometimes include model answers. To see if your professor has released past exams, check out the library's Past Exams database. Exams released from 2014 onwards are available online.

Bar Exam

The library's Bar Exam and MPRE Resource Guide highlights important information and services as you prepare to take the bar examination in Arizona or elsewhere.